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Taiga?s True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Melinda Takeuchi (1994-06-01)
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The History of England, Vol 2
David Hume
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle
Richard H. Popkin
Cicero: On Moral Ends (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Raphael Woolf, Julia Annas
Das Goldene Vlies: Dramatisches Gedicht in Drei Abteilungen
Franz Grillparzer
Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis
Charles R. Walker, Frank William Jones, William Arrowsmith, David Grene, Euripides, Richmond Lattimore
Notes from Underground & The Double
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jesse Coulson
The World of Thought in Ancient China
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A poem by John Burnside

                          Weather Report

 

A chill grey over our heads

at summer's end; 

the road like a ditch

 

at Beley: aquaplane

and sidelights through the smirr

of afternoon;

 

yard brushes lost

in the mud

and carrion

 

hay on the fields,

where crows go

to pick at the drowned.

 

This is the weather, today,

and the weather to come;

the boys with their hands

 

to the glass, making perfect

phantoms of themselves

in their own steam,

 

or lodged in the doorframe,

they wave,

through the slantwise of rain,

 

already half persuaded of a life

they never bargained for

and cannot alter.

 

- John Burnside, Black Cat Bone